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Cons Urologist/Assoc Professor. Guy's & St Thomas NHS. prostate/renal Single/multi port Robotics/HoLEP @TUF_tweets /🐧 vs 🦀 trustee. PGHRFC Own views. 🇬🇧4🇺🇦

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Ben Challacombe
5 months
3 Robots 1 course. ROBOstart: a new course for robotic beginners. Immersive labs with biodegradable hydrogel models @GSTTnhs @IMRASurgical Huge thanks to @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @medtroniceu @CMRSurgical future dates tba @ProfessorTonyC1
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RARP HIT List @GuysUrology anyone seen a turnover like this? 32 seconds! 8 standard op times, in 2 theatres with minimal gap in between. Super team. @dr_imranahmad @elboghdadly with concept. Delivered by @cathcartsurgery @cbrownurology @prokarurol @UroNoel @ata_jaffer @GSTTnhs
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Huge congratulations to the amazing @prokarurol on his OBE In the King’s Honours list. Colleague, friend and mentor to so many of us @GuysUrology and far beyond. The great innovator keeps us all going. @GSTTnhs @kingshealth
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Ben Challacombe
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No @BAUSurology information sheets?- no problem. Already in use by the patients! Not sure why we didn’t think of this before. Thanks to @UroNoel & Angus Bruce for getting it sorted @GuysUrology
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Supporting our ⁦ @GSTTnhs ⁩ nurses today. They work so hard and deserve more.
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#urotwitter What are the 50 Landmark papers urologists should know? for a new @CRCPress book. These can be a new procedure, evaluating effects of new treatments/techniques, new classification system or insights into disease. With great coauthors @ClaireJTaylor1 @Yasminabugh
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Well if you have to do a robotic op and a clinic on your birthday @GuysUrology is the best place to be! Pizza from the theatre team @ceejaychloe and cake from the clinic docs @nehasihra Marc Furrer. Thank you all. #guysfamily @GSTTnhs
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
When #Holep goes well it really is the absolute business. 450cc Prostate with high pressure chronic retention for 10 months. 399gm resected-Hard graft. Twoc day 1. Voiding well. Pic with permission. To see the smile on his face is why we do this 😄 @GuysUrology @GSTTnhs
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Ben Challacombe
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I am a Consultant in urology & associate professor in a large teaching hospital. I’m vaccinated/boosted as are my teenage children. Vaccination is an important step in protecting my loved ones, my colleagues & my patients. It reduces morbidity, mortality & reduces ICU admission.
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Ben Challacombe
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Amazing stats for @GSTTnhs Robotics in 2021. Almost 1300 robotic operations (mainly cancer) over 5 specialities by 24 surgeons despite all the covid issues. Most ever in the 🇬🇧 for one trust! @GuysUrology @IntuitiveSurg Well done all our teams.
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Surgery must be one of the few professions where your performance the day before a holiday directly impacts on whether you can actually go on the holiday. #girft
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
How many times can one take the blood pressure and adrenaline surge of the robotic partial nephrectomy? And teaching it! Cracked the personal 700 mark @GuysUrology @GSTTevents
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Ben Challacombe
1 year
Old problem- new solutions. The prostatic middle lobe- at the centre of so much that we do in #bph it has its own flow rate patterns, symptom profile, response to medications and treatment options. @bellagharbieh @NatRevUrol @DrFairleighR
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
Another ray of light @GSTTnhs as the @GuysUrology team came together to run one of the #COVIDVaccination hubs today. 500 staff done in the 🥶! Real sense of positivity. Thanks to @sachmalde @tsoburol @TaimurShah
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Amazing increase in #roboticsurgery @GSTTnhs in 2022. 1647 cases across 7 specialities with 5 @IntuitiveSurg da Vinci’s. Urology/renal, TORS, Thoracics, gynae, UGI/LGI Most ever for everyone! 8900 all time cases. Well done everyone. @GuysUrology @GSTTanaesthesia @prokarurol
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Ben Challacombe
4 months
Huge congratulations to @prokarurol for winning the @Uroweb innovators award. We are all so proud of you @GuysUrology @ERUSrobotics
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Ben Challacombe
4 months
The UKs launch of @IntuitiveSurg #sp system. 14 cases in 5 days with wonderful mentorship from @SimoneCrivella2 @LondnBridgeHosp @CahillDeclan @chriseden99 wonderful support from the whole nursing and SCP team. A masterclass in starting a service. Photo with permission.
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
A thorn amongst the roses. A solely female robotic partial nephrectomy team until I turned up to check on things! Well done all. Colleagues with heritage from 🇧🇩 🇵🇭 🇱🇹 🇿🇼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇱 #nhsDiversity @GSTTnhs @HCAhealthcare @GuysUrology @Yasminabugh
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
The current future of surgery teaching? Nice pm doing a robotic prostatectomy @GSTTnhs transmitted via @ProximieAR to @KCLSurgicalSoc @KCLUrologySoc @gktmsa we covered anatomy physiology pathology, op complications. Just chatting. Pt consent @DrNadz @prokarurol @GuysUrology
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
'I lost my dad to prostate cancer, don't lose yours' Really sensible messages in this. We are missing 14,000 men who should have been diagnosed due to covid
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Our Robotic fellowship 2023-24 positions are out. Themed jobs for prostate, bladder & kidney surgery. 5 da Vincis. Longest running 🇬🇧robotic fellowships. @GuysUrology @prokarurol @ProfShamimKhan1 @cbrownurology @cathcartsurgery @fernando_archie
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Ben Challacombe
1 year
“Not much will come out. You’ll only need a couple of syringes they said!” Prostatic abscess in a man awaiting cardiac valve surgery. Drained transperineally under sedation. @GuysUrology before and after sagittal TRUS views.
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
PACS now not needed? Time to trust the 3D model. Everything it shows: is-right-there. Robotic partial nephrectomy in a horseshoe kidney. Complex vascular anatomy but made simple thanks to @innersightlabs @GSTTnhs @GuysUrology
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Ben Challacombe
1 year
Last few days to apply for the @GuysUrology robotic fellowship posts for October 2024 start. Longest running UK robotic fellowship. Biggest UK robotic programme. 5 da Vinci’s plus new robots.
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Ben Challacombe
5 years
Thanks very much to @BAUSurology for this special award. Amazing to receive it from the man who started my urological career @prokarurol @GuysUrology #BAUS19
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Ben Challacombe
6 years
Farewell to the amazing ⁦ @bennamdarian ⁩ ⁦ @GuysUrology ⁩ robotic fellow & then colleague. Brilliant surgeon & quite a good singer too! ⁦ @GSTTnhs ⁩ will miss you. training rule “ if I let you do the case you do us a song!” ⁦ @MattBultitude ⁩ ⁦ @tsoburol
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Ben Challacombe
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@GSTTresearch @GSTTnhs @NIHRresearch @KingsCollegeLon @EvelinaLondon @kingshealth @kingsmedicine @msh_manu @VasaCurcin @achir76 @broughallergy @Luigi_ICM Delighted to have been made a Reader/Associate Professor and will continue our exciting work with robotics/Prostate/kidney cancers and teaching @GSTTnhs
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
First time we have done a robotic RPLND supine with a bilateral full template. #testiscancer @GuysUrology @fernando_archie helped by @haroldthemann advised by @JamesPorterMD from @swedishurology via @ProximieAR @GSTTnhs @LondnBridgeHosp
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Ben Challacombe
5 years
Amazing to join the exclusive club with my mentors @prokarurol and @tsoburol and thanks to @GuysUrology and @GSTTnhs for supporting me throughout.
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A big congratulations to our consultant urologist @benchallacombe who received a @BAUSurology Golden Telescope. The award is given to clinicians who have made an outstanding contribution to urology and he's the third consultant from our Trust to receive it
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Ben Challacombe
7 months
Announcing Robo-start. Our 1st UK robotic course for early year surgeons CT1-2, ST3. A 1 day device agnostic course covering principles, docking, set up, assisting and basic techniques using biodegradable models. @IMRASurgical @Proximie @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @CMRSurgical
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Ben Challacombe
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HoLEP Consent. Patients with arts/humanities backgrounds “just tell me where to sign” Patients with engineering backgrounds “I’ve watched a video,made notes, drawn a diagram. How do you establish the enucleation plane, what λ is Holmium, does voiding follow Poiseuille's law ?”
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Ben Challacombe
10 months
End of an era with robotic fellows @JafferUrol and @d_chia1 graduating. Ata to a consultant job @StockportNHS and Dan as Locum consultant @GuysUrology . Over 235 RARPS, 100 kidneys and 70 HoLEPS as primary surgeon between them + @TUF_tweets ride. Thanks for your hard work.
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
And so @BAUSurology has a new Vice-President who will be its first ever female President . Huge Congratulations @JoCresswell4
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Good luck to @GuysUrology graduating fellows @DrFairleighR & @DrVincent0r Independent in robotic prostatectomy, partial & radical nephrectomy, la TP biopsy & HoLEP. Congratulations & good luck. @cbrownurology @cathcartsurgery @prokarurol @UroNoel @doc_azharkhan @fernando_archie
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Ben Challacombe
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Amazing opportunity @JamesPorterMD giving me tips through @ProximieAR on a tough retro robotic partial with prev abdo surgery @GuysUrology yesterday . Top augmented reality via @innersightlabs showing the tumour perfectly. Like having @maroitoje helping you scrummage! @GSTTnhs
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Ben Challacombe
5 years
Wonderful day as visiting professor @PeterMacCC with @declangmurphy . Speaking on “what I know now that I didn’t at the start”, contributing to an mdm where everyone is in a trial & seing @DrDanielMoon complete a robotic nephrectomy with venous invasion. @lawrentschuk @GuysUrology
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Ben Challacombe
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Really excited to be demonstrating the UKs first live surgery case with the @MedtronicUK HUGO RAS system at @future_surgery event next week. @GSTTnhs @Proximie @GuysUrology @UroNoel
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
What would you do? We are facing an Interesting hospital dilemma in London now. Save some ITU beds for time critical surgical cancer cases (Av stay 2 days/3 patients per week) or use for unvaccinated covid patients potentially staying several weeks?
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Ben Challacombe
7 months
Our 50th HUGO RAS @TouchSurgery case @GuysUrology yesterday. & Our first Clinical case observership. Rarps kidneys, partials and more. There’s a spare seat for you in 2024! @prokarurol @nairajesh @GSTTnhs @MedtronicUK
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
@nishanturo It’s not specifically that the subject is FEMALE GU fistulae but the fact that whoever set up the panel didn’t even consider a little bit of gender diversity on it in 2020! Would be equally outraged if on prostate cancer or stones. A few men please stand aside #manel
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Our amazing CNSs @GuysUrology do so much work and much of it is firefighting and picking up issues where others can’t be reached. @louisafleure explains the problem over a 10day audit and a satirical view of how the systems responds! 🐎 We are so grateful to them.
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Ben Challacombe
8 months
Thanks to our amazing faculty at the robotic masterclass module of the Advanced @UrologyBootCamp . Great to show our stuff to, mentor and advise the senior Sprs. Hugely grateful to the amazing @shekharbiyani for inviting us. @JafferUrol @Dr_Kamran_Haq Anna Walsh, Krishna Patil
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Ben Challacombe
7 years
THE BIG PROSTATE My best present whatever happens tomorrow! Thanks to all our authors & the amazing @veerukasi for running the show. @oussama_elhage @drjonrees @nickfaurewalker @Rick_Catt @cmatynhemphill @gordonhmuir @YukiNehikhare @sivanrij @jonmakUrology @MattBultitude
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
Docked to the thigh! Amazing collaboration from @GSTTnhs plastics Jenny Geh, @ProximieAR & @GuysUrology rare connective tissue tumour. Robotic EPLND, R inguinal VEIL on new X. Open L inguinal node dissection, flap & tumour excision. @haroldthemann @MarcinSicinski pts permission
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Ben Challacombe
10 months
If you love robotics you will enjoy this! So excited to get my copy of our @ProfessorTonyC1 Principles & Practice of Robotic Surgery. Beautifully illustrated with linked videos. Thanks to all the legends of robotics who authored chapters. @DrFairleighR @ElsevierConnect
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
Once you sit at the console - you get it! Lovely to welcome @GSTTnhs Dept chief executive @LawrenceTallon to see some robotic surgery & surgical teaching via @ProximieAR @DrNadz @icabbs @GuysUrology
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Ben Challacombe
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8 robots-3 jobs- 1 great hospital Advertising for our @GuysUrology @GSTTnhs 1 year Robotic fellowship positions starting October 2025. Longest running UK robotic fellowship with >95% of graduates in independent robotic practice
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Extra Saturday lists @GuysUrology 10 cases, 2 lists including holeps, turbts and satisfying bladder stones. Sorting out @GSTTnhs waiting patients and providing consultant-led training. We must do more of this. @DrFairleighR @kawaomaar @nishapindoria
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Guest fellowship trainer! @JamesPorterMD taking @GSTTnhs fellow @DrFairleighR through things @GuysUrology . Thanks to @ProximieAR for the visit. @DrNadz @prokarurol @fernando_archie
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Need to mentor 2 ops at the same time?- no problem with @ProximieAR Great work by @doc_azharkhan robotic partial nephrectomy and @LoukopoulosI robotic donor nephrectomy @GuysUrology @GSTTnhs @DrNadineHH
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
@GSTTnhs ⁩ legend Mr Geoff Koffman retires from clinical work after 35yrs. >2000 #transplants renal, paediatric, spk. mentor colleague friend. ⁦ @icabbs ⁩ ⁦ @SimonSteddon_ ⁩ ⁦ @CityUrology ⁩ ⁦ @GuysUrology ⁩ ⁦ @specialkathomas ⁩ ⁦ @NizamMamode
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Ben Challacombe
5 years
@NatRevUrol @stephenfry It has been a real honour to look after @stephenfry and I’m so grateful to him for agreeing to write this article so other men can better understand many of the issues surrounding #prostatecancer treatment. @TUF_tweets has lots of additional complementary information.
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
Increasingly What seems outrageous today will seem utterly inadequate tomorrow. #coronavirus now plans to end elective surgery, go to phone consults only. The potential ICU numbers are pretty worrying. We all Need to socially isolate #FlattenTheCurve
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
Be careful guys. Test pre-op, isolate patients for at least a week, operate in full PPE, but only operate if absolutely needed. For London just big RCC, NU, TURBT, orchidectomy, ? Cystectomy. Elective deaths post op are real. What seems outrageous today is inadequate tomorrow.
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4 years
Hugely important given that we are not testing patients preop. Asymptomatic infected individuals are likely very common in the community. Operating on these people appears very risky - very few if any elective operations carry anything near a 20% mortality rate.
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Ben Challacombe
3 months
Great to show @JoCresswell4 @BAUSurology president around our HUGO @MedtronicUK robot on our first 3 major case day. @GuysUrology @GSTTnhs
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Ben Challacombe
5 years
My child’s year 8 (u13) science book. As a urologist I’m amazed by this!. #prostate doesn’t even feature. How are men meant to know about it if they aren’t ever taught it even exists? ⁦ @BAUSurology ⁩ ⁦ @ProstateUK ⁩ we need to educate.
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Ben Challacombe
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#urology might have a higher degree of nonsense and stress levels on many days! From a childrens careers game.
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Huge congratulations to our 3rd year @GuysUrology Med student Duaa Faruqi for winning best post in the Kidney cancer session @BAUSurology #BAUS23 even got to meet @JoCresswell4 afterwards! @tsoburol @fernando_archie @UsmanHaroonlive @Yasminabugh @nairajesh @doc_azharkhan
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Ben Challacombe
1 year
Look who just happened to be passing! Still sharp as a tack and funny as ever. The legend that is Dr Patrick Walsh. 50 years on from his famous nerve discovery @declangmurphy @dr_coops @Uroweb #EAU23
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
@GavinMcKee13 We have 8 robotic SCPs. Incredibly dedicated senior nurses. Some have done >3000 robotic cases. They can teach the medical students, registrars, fellows and even us consultants many things and regularly do. You can be taught by whoever knows the subject area
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Ben Challacombe
7 years
So sad to hear of the death of Mr John Wickham, father of robotic surgery who used 1st autonomous surgical robot @GuysUrology @BAUSurology
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6 years
Very proud to get this from my mentor @proftcostello #AUA2018 Royal Melbourne fellows reunion was the highlight of my meeting. @declangmurphy @helenrcrowe @DrDanielMoon @SiskaVB @dbh44 @ckylemd @nairajesh @Robin_Weston
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Looks deeper than expected? Who’s coming to #ERUS22 ? I’m performing this RPN from @GermansTriasFH & co-hosting @UrowebESU RPN course. #Carlos Gonzalez-Satue @P_servian @innersightlabs @GermansTriasFH @AlbertoBreda1 @alexmottrie 🗓️Wed & Thurs Oct. 27th 🔗
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Ben Challacombe
1 year
@GuysUrology Using @innersightlabs for planning pre robotic RPLND. Quite a big 6cm mass post 3x BEP chemo, but well defined + minimal aortic effacement. Ureter- yellow is close. But Should we stent pre-op?
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
Where is everyone? Covid doesn’t cure cancer & we know how many cancer diagnoses there should be each year. Missing almost 50% of the #prostatecancer diagnoses in SE London this year & plenty of breast, gynae and lung cancers. #getchecked @TUF_tweets @ProstateUK
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
It’s all kicking off. @Medtronic #hugo system for robotic sacrocolpopexy. also used in cystectomy, intra corporeal conduit, partial nephrectomy and prostatectomy. @Ruben_De_Groote @joanfundi @AlbertoBreda1 @ERUSrobotics session #EAU22
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
New moment when my children find & select my robotic partial nephrectomy playlist for the next year. To keep warm ischaemic time <20 mins. 5x4 min songs. Try to never hear 6th! @haroldthemann @cheekychessie @ceejaychloe @GuysUrology will be pleased for a change of songs! #retro
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Ben Challacombe
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Did a stent. Didn’t need it! Patient home day 1. He loved the model and happy for me to show his images.
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
Taking his mind off it but lucky he didn’t show me @benstokes38 6s!Lovely that @kumarKJx could watch @englandcricket vs @sp_Indiacricket throughout his prostate operation yesterday. #holep @GuysUrology the wonders of spinal anaesthesia! Here in recovery. @GSTTnhs
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Ever so grateful to our wonderful @NHSuk for the care I have had since January culminating in a surgical procedure at @GSTTnhs under the excellent @benchallacombe and his team. Even better the wonderful surgical team allowed me to watch the India v England ODI throughout 😀😀
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Ben Challacombe
3 months
Huge honour to present our @GuysUrology robotic RPLND and Hugo Rarp work at the John Fitzpatrick uro-oncology meeting at @AVIVAStadium And catch up with our amazing previous fellows. @annalucywalsh @UsmanHaroonlive @DiarmaidMoran and find some future ones. What a venue!
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Ben Challacombe
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Watch our first hysterectomy course. 3 different robots & 4 simulators! @GSTTnhs & @IMRASurgical huge thanks to @IntuitiveSurg @TouchSurgery @CMRSurgical @Proximie @KCLSurgicalSoc
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Work experience student this week “why bother dictating, typing and sending letters to GPs about their consultation. Why not just type notes into the PC and the GP can read it directly. “ If only! #nhsIT
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Ben Challacombe
7 months
Christmas present/Christmas past. Amazing to be doing Aquablation prostate robotics with our fantastic @GuysUrology team 30yrs on from the first autonomous prostate surgery, in the same theatre! #probot @PROCEPTRobotics @GSTTnhs
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
#erus21 robotic partial nephrectomy course with the new Wickham Award recipient @alexmottrie and @ERUSrobotics Chairman @AlbertoBreda1 For his contributions to robotic urology.
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Ben Challacombe
5 years
The master of robotic partial nephrectomy Dr Sam Bhayani popped in @GuysUrology to advise me on a tricky T2 partial and to get a better renorrhaphy playlist! @GSTTnhs Looking forward to hearing him speak @BAUSurology tomorrow
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
Big thanks to @GSTTnhs walk-in (cycle up) vaccination tent for staff. Booster to left arm, flu jab to right —> but which arm will be more painful tomorrow? #jabtrial
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Ben Challacombe
2 months
New robot. New approaches. SP robot is the real deal. Huge variety of ops. Trans/extra RARPS. Trans vesical. Trans/retro kidney ops. But Low anterior NU best!. 60 cases/6 weeks @chriseden99 @CahillDeclan Huge thanks @SimoneCrivella2 Peter Ruff. @LondnBridgeHosp @IntuitiveSurg
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Ben Challacombe
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Good day for @MaxFrenchyy @GuysUrology theatres today. Watching 3 robotic cases, a holep, a play on the robo simulator.. oh and he passed his @kingsmedicine final mbbs! Well done.
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@TUF_tweets 10th anniversary ride raising money for all urological diseases from @RCSnews to #paris urologists, nurses, patients, industry riding. please support us. @BAUSurology #bike4tuf2023 @BURSTurology @BSoT_UK @DrBenEddy
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Huge thanks to the whole team. We have taken a week off our waiting list in one day! And Energised the theatre and urology teams. @MarcinSicinski Jonathan Watkiss @ceejaychloe
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Ben Challacombe
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@ERUSrobotics ⁩ when you pop out for lunch and realise you should have brought a better pair of sunnies than ⁦ @IntuitiveSurg ⁩ 3D glasses! #erus19 @Uroweb ⁩ thanks for a great meeting ⁦ @Uro_Kris ⁩ ⁦ @alexmottrie
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
This is a stressful time for men with #ProstateCancer who are awaiting treatment. Urologists please read @ProstateUK FAQs to understand the current concerns and ensure you cover these issues with your patients @BAUSurology @tsoburol
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
Stress free robotic conversion? Pretty impressed with the @Medtronic #hugorobot same foot controls, Ergonomic hand controllers. Multiple instrument uses. Great vision. @TouchSurgery @ERUSrobotics meeting. #erus21 Want one!
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Ben Challacombe
4 years
Looks a fantastic webinar and I wish you well with it. But At a time when you can recruit anyone in the whole world it seems odd you couldn’t find one women to ask onto the panel. X is good. Some XX would be better! #looklikeaurologist
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Ben Challacombe
8 months
@morefluids Called a man into clinic post prostatectomy with the women he was chatting to. Asked how his continence was. When I enquired about his erections he said he would rather not say. That’s odd I thought, then he said the woman was a neighbour he just met in the clinic!
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Ben Challacombe
1 year
Great when your fellow teaches you a new technique after 1000 holeps. #enbloc thanks @JafferUrol @GuysUrology
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Unique venue to kick off #BAUS2022 as @tsoburol starts the citations for @PeaPeaspot Duncan Summerton @mrsprostate @shekharbiyani Citations from @IPearce82 @EmbertonMark Steve Payne. All so well deserved. @BAUSurology
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Ben Challacombe
6 years
@JimCatto ⁩ explains ViRADS score for #bladdercancer @BAUSurology ⁩ oncology potentially practice changing. May enable MIBC to go straight to treatment #bladderpathtrial
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Ben Challacombe
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@sachrana11 @Sri_URO @Rolyrat1 @VaibhavModgil @RSMUrology @BAUSurology @JCUrology #Urology is a great specialty. Friendly, cohesive, progressive. Family friendly. Common & rare diseases. Ageing population so job security. Large and small operations. Lots of technology. Robotics, laparoscopy, lasers. @BAUSurology @RSMUrology
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Ben Challacombe
6 years
We thought it was time to evaluate both the positive and negative aspects of Retzius sparing RARP and its limitations. There is a balance between improved early continence & potentially higher positive margin rates. @tom_stonier @jdhdavis @BJUIjournal
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Representing @TUF_tweets @HouseofCommons reception with @UrologyTrade to stimulate industry partnerships to improve patient care with @hannahrwarren @Rolyrat1 @MarcusDrakeUrol some amazing projects from @bostonsci @Coloplast_UK @HunterUrology @PeakMedicalLtd + flume catheter!
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6 years
#ERUS18 Vip Patel the worlds most experienced radical prostatectomist rejects retzius sparing approach due to oncological concerns & difficulty teaching this challenging procedure. He Would rather focus on optimising functional outcomes of standard approach. @ERUSrobotics
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Ben Challacombe
3 years
Sunday: running ➡️ acute knee pain Monday: can’t walk 😿 ➡️ MRI Tuesday: expert knee 🦴 opinion Mr Adil Ajuied. Meniscus torn Wednesday: steroid injection Dr Houghton IR Not ideal week off but now I can move & hopefully operate next week. Huge thanks @GSTTnhs Orthopaedics 👍🏻
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Ben Challacombe
2 years
Exciting #partial trial starting soon led by @naeemsoomro @Heer_Lab run by CHaRT @hsru_aberdeen Graeme MacLennan and supported by @TUF_tweets please register your site. @grantissimus @Krish_Narahari @tsoburol @benchallacombe @BAUSurology
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